Japan observation tower
Akita Port Tower
You can see 108 km from here, looking south-east.
Calculating the panorama…
Drag to turn around. The relief is drawn 2.2 times taller so the ridges can be read; far ridges are paler, as in the real air.
The view
Up to 108 km away.
Calculated on the relief one degree at a time, up to 250 km, with the curvature of the Earth and the refraction of the air: what stands above the horizon from here.
Our own rating, from the relief and the climate only: open horizon (35 points), how far you see (25), sea and named peaks in view (20) and clear months (20).
- 108 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 29%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 35Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 3 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 35 peaks you can name from here
From west to east as you turn around: height, distance and direction. Each one links to its guide on Peakyas, our mountain atlas.
From the relief only: buildings, trees and haze are not in the model. On a hazy day you see much less; 250 km is the limit of our calculation.
The sun
The best sunsets are from April to May and from September to October.
When the sun really disappears from this viewpoint — behind the relief or into the sea — and in which direction, on the 15th of each month, in local time.
- Jansouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset13%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset16%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Maynorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Julnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Novsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Decsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset16%
- Time: when the sun goes behind the horizon you see from here.
- Minutes: how much earlier the relief hides the sun.
- %: share of clear sky that month (NASA, 2001–2020).
The highlighted months are the clearest. Golden hour starts about an hour before.
The place
Akita Port Tower.
Tower building in Akita, Akita prefecture, Japan
Akita Port Tower is an observation tower in Japan.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 108 km away, looking south-east.
The sea fills 29% of the horizon.
35 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Iwaki (1,625 m), 102 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from April to May and from September to October.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.Official site↗
- 竹屋旅館place to stay · 0.6 km · 61 within 10 km
- Akitanearest town · 6.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in AkitaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Akita Airport (AXT)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 20 km in a straight lineCar hire at AOJ airport (Aomori)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
Plan the visit
A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above
The viewpoint and its surroundings.
The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 4other viewpoints within 5 km座頭小路のいちょう, 八橋一里塚, ポートタワーセリオン and 1 more
- 4named peaks within 5 km勝平山, 跨腰山, 昼寝山 and 1 more
- 25shelters and huts within 5 kmSHANGRI-LA and 24 more
- 263car parks within 3 km
- 3visitor centres within 5 km川反夜遊びガイド, 大町優良案内, 秋田市まちなか観光案内所 旧大島商会店舗
- 99restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 km
- 61places to stay within 10 km竹屋旅館, はたなか旅館, ビジネス旅館 小野 and 58 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
In our other atlases
What you see from Akita Port Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas13 mountains within 25 km
Cascadyas5 waterfalls within 15 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The view, as people saw it.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Akita Port Tower
Japan
- 78Viewyas Score
- 108 kmFarthest ridge
- 35Peaks in view
- 3 mAltitude
Mount Bandai
Japan · 239 km
- 78Viewyas Score
- 232 kmFarthest ridge
- 138Peaks in view
- 1,793 mAltitude
Goryōkaku Tower
Japan · 234 km
- 74Viewyas Score
- 138 kmFarthest ridge
- 22Peaks in view
- 17 mAltitude
Oyashirazu
Japan · 370 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 200 kmFarthest ridge
- 11Peaks in view
- 156 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q11314514) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Sun | J. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms |
| Peaks in view | Peakyas (Wikidata, CC0) |
| Panorama and altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Clouds | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Islandyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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